Stable -rc git trees and email headers

Greg KH
2016-06-18T03:16:23Z

Hi,

I've finally gotten off my butt and made my quilt trees of patches into
a "semi-proper" git tree to make it easier for people to test them.

I'm now pushing the patches I accept into the stable queues into the git
tree here:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git

I'll push them out in chunks, as I accept them, and when I do a "real"
-rc release. Right now the HEAD of each branch will have a -rc1 tag on
them, just because it makes it a bit easier on my end.

Note these branches WILL get rebased. All the time. So don't count on
them to contain anything that will stick around, UNTIL a real stable
release happens.

Guenter, I hope this helps with your testing, is there anything that I
can do here to make it easier for you?

Kevin, hopefully this tree also helps you. I will also be adding some
email headers to my announcements of the -rc releases that you can
parse. Here is what they are going to look like for an example release:

X-KernelTest-Patch: http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.4.14-rc1.gz
X-KernelTest-Tree: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git
X-KernelTest-Branch: linux-4.4.y
X-KernelTest-Patches: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git
X-KernelTest-Version: 4.4.14-rc1
X-KernelTest-Deadline: 2016-06-20T02:57+00:00

Will those work out?

Fengguang, can you add these to the 0-day bot? The branches to watch
are all of the currently-active stable trees. Right now that would be
"linux-3.14.y", "linux-4.4.y", and "linux-4.6.y". Do I need to tell you
about future branches, or can you just pick up new ones when they show
up?

And can I get announcements if/when the tests pass (or fail) so I know
all is ok?

Hope this helps people out,

thanks,

greg k-h